Elisio Tada alias Ka Bimbo receives medical services from a Military doctor at Camp Panacan Station Hospital . Tada introduced himself as team leader of NPA unit operating under the CPPs Guerilla Front 71. The receiving government troops noticed that Tada was chilling and suffering from high fever so they immediately brought the surrenderee to Malita District Hospital for Medical treatment. Tada also belongs to the same NPA unit that fired upon the PDT of 73IB de ... Read More

Government troops responded upon reports from the civilians expressing distress due to the presence of NPA in their bara The day before, soldiers of the same battalion turned over , 15 years old, to his family at Barangay Pag-asa after the minor was abandoned by an NPA during a near encounter with government troops. @Arnold, liaison and member of Team 1, Primera Squad of Platoon Mazda of the Local Terrorist Group Area 71, jumped off a cliff and abandoned Buboy upon seeing the patrolling soldi ... Read More

Buboy, not his real name, was only 12 when he was first utilized by the communists to carry supplies intended for the New Peoples Army. The boy was lured to join the armed group because of a promise that he would receive a regular allowance which he would use to support his family. For three years now that he was with the NPA, he was already involved in two armed skirmishes with the government troops in Barangay Datal Anggas of said municipality. His parents admitted that they never knew that th ... Read More

Through the joint effort of troops from 27th Infantry Battalion, Task Group Koronadal, Local Government Units, Philippine National Police and Philippine Red Cross helped in retrieving the the bodies of the victims during the incident. 56 families or a total of 227 individuals were evacuated to safer areas. Heavy rains caused flashfloods at Brgy Carpenter and a landslide that hit a remote village in Sitio Lower and Upper Acub, Bgy San Isidro, City of Koronadal, which resulted ... Read More

The five surrenderees are members of the Platoon Mazda, Guerilla Front 71 roaming in the hinterlands of Glan, Malapatan and Alabel all of SaranganiProvince. They have been inactive for the past years due to the hardships of constantly fleeing from government troops. According to them, they have felt isolation from the community when soldiers started immersing in the different barangays that have raised the awareness of the villages on the evils of the communists. They themselves ... Read More

A 3.9 km Farm-to-market road worth 4.1 million was turned over by 39th Infantry Battalion to Barangay Captain Nemecio Buta of Bgy Astorga during a recent ceremony held at Bgy Astorga, Sta. Cruz.Said project started on November 23, 2009 and finished on May 28, 2010 from vicinity of Garcia compound to Sitio Tubison, Astorga, Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur and a water system at the same area worth 400,000. Governor Douglas Cagas of Davao del Sur lauded the efforts of the government, part ... Read More